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egypt
/ˈi.d͡ʒɪpt/
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What does egypt mean?
proper noun
- A country in North Africa and West Asia. Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt. Capital: Cairo.
- A town in Craighead County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Effingham County, Georgia.
More meanings (18)
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Jordan Township, Jasper County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Holmes County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Auglaize County, Ohio.
- An extinct town in Belmont County, Ohio.
- A census-designated place in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
- A ghost town in Leon County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Wharton County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia.
- A former settlement in Summers County, West Virginia.
- A tiny hamlet in Leckhampstead parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU4476).
- A suburban village in Farnham Royal parish, Buckinghamshire, previously in South Bucks district (OS grid ref SU9685).
- A suburb of Nailsworth, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST8499).
- A hamlet in Wonston parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4640).
- A hamlet near Thornton, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0933).
- A rural locality in Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia.
- (historical) A civilization based around the river Nile, on its lower reaches nearer the Mediterranean.
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IPA pronunciation
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It is evident that at an early age, both in Egypt and in India, spiritualized conceptions of sun-worship had already been formed.
What fortune he met with afterwards, how he took shelter in Egypt, and was murdered there, we tell you in his Life.
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Also when it raineth once in the summer in the land of Egypt, then is all the country full of great mires.
From the time of his return from Egypt, amid all the honours which were showered upon him, he had suffered many mortifications.
In Egypt Sesostris, the grandest king of the country, having lost his eyesight in his old age, calmly and deliberately killed himself.